Book Talks

Book Talks 2024 - 2025

Book Talks are designed to give UM faculty with a humanities focus an opportunity to share their recently published books with the community. Faculty generally present on their research and take questions from the audience.   

Please join us for another academic year @ Books & Books (265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134)! Please RSVP for the program to allow for set-up. Programs take place on Monday evenings, starting at 6:30pm. 

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  • Monday, August 26: Henry Green

     

    Monday, August 26 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, by Henry Green & Richard Stursberg

    Henry Green, Professor of Religious Studies

  • Monday, September 16: Brian D. Blankenship

    Monday, September 16 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics

    Brian D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Political Science

  • Monday, October 7: Traci Ardren

    Monday, October 7 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World

    Traci Ardren, Professor of Anthropology

  • Monday, October 21: Eziaku Nwokocha

    Monday, October 21 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

    Eziaku Nwokocha, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

  • December 2: Logan Connors

    Monday, December 2 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire

    Logan Connors, Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures

  • Monday, January 27: Kunal Parker

     

    Monday, January 27 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

    The Turn to Process
    American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970

    Kunal Parker, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life and Dean's Distinguished Scholar

  • Monday, February 10: Catherine L. Newell

    Monday, February 10 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books

    Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating

    Catherine L. Newell, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

  • Monday, February 24: Pamela Geller

    Monday, February 24 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books

    Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection

    Pamela Geller, Professor of Anthropology

  • Monday, April 7: Ben Lauren

    Monday, April 7 @ 6:30pm

    Book Talk @ Books & Books

    Hold Me Down: Toward a Rhetoric of Feel

    Ben Lauren, Chair and Associate Professor of Writing Studies

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